I saw someone mentioned the word "drone" so I assume that that's what they are. If they're suits that can be remotely operated by Stark using Extremis, it would be even better. And I also hope these armors won't go away at the end of IM3; I want to see them in Avengers 2 and beyond.

I think they're all suits that Stark can control via either the Extremis virus or JARVIS. I tend to believe the rumors that Stark changes his armor in the final battle at least 3 times, meaning that the suits are all functional enough for him to wear.

It fits Starks storyline progression; after the invasion in Avengers and finally realizing his feelings for Pepper, Tony goes overboard and builds multiple suits for every scenario.

He even says in one of the trailers that he only cares about protecting the one thing in this world he cant live without.

That being Pepper, which is why when his house is attacked he "tells" the Mk42 to protect her instead of himself.

Yeah, I don't have a problem with having that many suits in the movie. I mean, why would Stark build one or two suits at a time, when he has the resource to build multiple suits? It also honors the comics by having Stark build a suit for every occasion and situation, and at least the audience can see the true brilliance of Tony Stark. Seriously, seeing all those suits is giving me quite a bit of a geek-gasm, and I hope they would release all the suits together as a toy collectible because I want to own every one of them.

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It fits Starks storyline progression; after the invasion in Avengers and finally realizing his feelings for Pepper, Tony goes overboard and builds multiple suits for every scenario.

He even says in one of the trailers that he only cares about protecting the one thing in this world he cant live without.

That being Pepper, which is why when his house is attacked he "tells" the Mk42 to protect her instead of himself.

No, I didn't say that a hated the idea of Stark going overboard with the armors after what happen in The Avengers.

I meant that I wish Marvel didnt have him have 42 armors in this one all at once, which is too much.
20-25 sounds more reasonable for the Iron Legion. That'd make it 13-18 new armors in the film, instead of 35 all at once.

It also seems like a cheap way to push out all these armors and comic book based armors all at once to make a big Hall of Armor as fast as possible.

No, I didn't say that a hated the idea of Stark going overboard with the armors after what happen in The Avengers.

I meant that I wish Marvel didnt have him have 42 armors in this one all at once, which is too much.
20-25 sounds more reasonable for the Iron Legion. That'd make it 13-18 new armors in the film, instead of 35 all at once.

It also seems like a cheap way to push out all these armors and comic book based armors all at once to make a big Hall of Armor as fast as possible.

Idk

Feige and Black have said that after the Battle of New York, Tony basically suffers from PTSD and becomes obsessed with the need to create as many suits of armor as possible. Tony knows now that there are more powerful beings out there, and he's been to outer space. He wants to have the armor at his disposal at all times. So he holes himself up in his workshop and builds armor nonstop until the Mandarin's attacks force him out of his home.

That pretty much explains why Tony has such a large number of suits in IM3. It's part of his character arc as well as a marketing angle.

Kinda surprised theres not already a thread dedicated to this, but with the dossier on each armor this week, its a good time to run through them. Let me know if I'm missing anything as we go.

***SPOILER ALERT*** if you don't want to know anything about the new armors:

Mark XXXVIII (38)
Heavy Lifting Suit "Igor"

I'm really glad that this isn't the Hulk-Buster armor...

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As long as it isn't the final version. I expect a lot more from the Hulkbuster armor!

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Feige and Black have said that after the Battle of New York, Tony basically suffers from PTSD and becomes obsessed with the need to create as many suits of armor as possible. Tony knows now that there are more powerful beings out there, and he's been to outer space. He wants to have the armor at his disposal at all times. So he holes himself up in his workshop and builds armor nonstop until the Mandarin's attacks force him out of his home.

That pretty much explains why Tony has such a large number of suits in IM3. It's part of his character arc as well as a marketing angle.

Again, I never said I didn't know why he built so many armors.........jeez

The original did indeed resemble the Juggernaut. I think it looked great but agree to disagree. This one looks like a turtle though.

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I realize that these armors will be remote controlled by Stark. But I would love to see the "Igor" suit torn apart in battle - only to have the Mandarin's henchmen find a curly-haired, middle-aged man inside with oddly glowing green eyes.

Again, I never said I didn't know why he built so many armors.........jeez

I know this all already.

All I said was that the Iron Legion seems bigger than I should be.

The way you phrased your objections sounded like you had no clue why Tony built his armors. How is the number of suits "bigger than it should be"? The writers chose to have 42 suits, but you arbitrarily want to lower the number for no particular reason other than that you don't like it.

The way you phrased your objections sounded like you had no clue why Tony built his armors. How is the number of suits "bigger than it should be"? The writers chose to have 42 suits, but you arbitrarily want to lower the number for no particular reason other than that you don't like it.

Meh, whatever
42 just seems a but excessive, unless, they really had 34 really good designs going on between 7 and 42 they really wanted to use right away, since they are aparrently treating this as the last solo film for Iron Man.

This seems like a strain on the merchandising for the film, seeing as Hasbro has to drastically lower the quality of their stuff to compensate releasing 35+ new armor figures, which will self warm anyway, due to the quality of the products.
There's also the mess that Hot Toys collectors are getting themselves into xD

Is there any article that makes explicit the exact power upgrades from mark to mark? Would be really helpful.

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